For the first time in almost forty years, your blog host is a Chicoan again. We now live about a mile from where I attended kindergarten and first grade. Through the intercession of St. Joseph, a fine young family will be renting the house in Orland.
You may have noticed that the blog has a new name. Long-time Chicoans will recognize the allusion instantly. A name that is evocative of Catholic England, the Eden-like beauty of our surroundings, and the quirky history of Chico must be regarded as positively inspired.
New Sherwood 
“We now live about a mile from where I attended kindergarten and first grade.”
You’ve got to admit, that’s kind of neat. I live a few blocks from where I attended first and fifth grades. That’s not *why* I live here; it just happens to be so.
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Yes, it is kind of neat. Lemme guess, in 2nd through 4th grades you were somewhere in the CA high desert?
They say that you don’t choose a home; home chooses you.
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Actually, in those grades I was in Arkansas and South Carolina. But I was in California up to the age of three.
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